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Increase the size of EBS volume in your EC2 instance In this post, I will guide you on how to increase disk size for an EC2 instance on AWS . Many times for DevOps Engineers needed to increase EC2 EBS volume due to: 1. Given default 8GB EBS volume at the time to launch EC2 instance. 2. The given EBS volume gets full due to too many docker images and other prod files. First, we need to log in AWS console  and select the ec2 instance which is running out of space. click on volume and follow the steps; Create snapshot It is best practice to create a snapshot of your volume in case something bad happens. 1. Go to your EBS volume list from your EC2 Dashboard. 2. Right-click the volume. 3. Click Create Snapshot link. 4. Add the description value snapshot-my-volume. 5. Add key: Name and value: ec2-ebs-snapshot. 6. Click the button Create Snapshot. 7. wait for some time while it is in progress.   Create a snapshot Increase the v